• Nom Nom@lemm.eeEnglish
      172·
      3 months ago

      The amount of time and effort needed to go through an Arch installation and succeeding probably is more therapeutic than paying $100 for a session of therapy. It’s enough to make them finally come out after all 🤷

  • Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip
    36·
    3 months ago

    I tried buying a used thinkpad and putting Linux on it, but then it stopped charging correctly after 2 weeks. So I went back on adhd meds and got a new job and turned my life around.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      10·
      3 months ago

      Honestly I thought I was doing good for my technical knowledge by playing with Linux and it has helped but there comes a point where I hit a plateau with that and now I just end up endlessly tweaking and just wasting time on it

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 months ago

    You should try gentoo as a therapy replacement next. It’s basically the adult version of maintaining a long running Animal Crossing save.

    Every morning I wake up, grab a coffee and update my system @world. Almost every day it goes without a hitch and I watch the system evaluate and resolve any incongruities that might emerge from updates by itself. Other times I might need to make a intervention in the dependencies to guide it to a resolution; but it’s a small nudge in the right direction, like tweaking a miniature ship inside a bottle.

    This is partially tongue in cheek but I unironically get a lot of joy out of administrating my PC: Having it completely customized and working exactly like I need it to.

      • Vilian@lemmy.ca
        5·
        3 months ago

        i ironically think than i can better handle stress than my other friends because of grub breaking my sister’s laptop(dual boot) at the worses moments possible, i learned to force me to stay calm to search and read correctly how fix grub before she realized

  • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
    201·
    3 months ago

    Looks at M2 macbook running NixOS

    Ok maybe I do need help.

    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
      7·
      3 months ago

      Someone was saying in a linux hate post yesterday that linux is not viable for beginners because it is not easy to install arch linux on a vm on their old macbook. Lmao

      • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        My kid (not even a teenager) uses Linux daily. And not in a coy “he’s using a chromebook” way. He’s using full-blown NixOS on a laptop I set up for him. Could he have set it up? No, but he’s a child. Has day to day use presented him with any difficulties whatsoever? Nope. He figured out gnome purely by instinct in a day. He goes between macos and windows and linux effortlessly, because he’s a reasonably intelligent human being.

        But, yes, half the time the “linux is hard” crowd seem to be basing their evaluation on things you would rarely do on a mac or windows machine. These days, install Mint, Fedora, or, hell, even Nixos or Endeavor, choose the defaults, and you will very likely have a perfectly usable, intuitive system.

      • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        The real thing. https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/

        I wouldn’t say it’s something anyone can do (no graphical installer and updating is a bit manual) and it’s all dependent on the Asahi folks, bless them, but it took me about 20 minutes, other than whipping up a machine-specific configuration.nix and home.nix (about 20 more minutes on either side of the installation). All of the instructions were clear, though I will warn that some of them are not well presented in that there are instructions that should be bullet points that are stuffed into paragraphs. Nothing remotely exotic though–that’s all in the Asahi stuff that is wonderfully hidden from the view.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
    17·
    3 months ago

    the aliens watching me for entertainment: oh no, he has installed gentoo and qubes, he is too far gone

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    My right index finger still has an indent from using the clit-mouse to play Starcraft on a Thinkpad 25 years ago.